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November 14, 2023By now all of you who care for Palestinians must have watched the video of Scott Ritter Interview.
I completely agree with him when he talks about how Israel had suffered a huge blow and the world will turn against it – it already is . What a brilliant and wonderfully accurate analysis ( except the history of Hamas).
The moment I read the news around 6Am on Oct 7th, I had tweeted and said, this is the Tet Offensive of the Palestinians, and just like the Tet Offensive did for Vietnam, it is going to change the course of the struggle for Palestine . I also stated that the Middle East is not going to be the same after the dust settles. Israel, of course, was going to act according to its policy of exacting disproportionate revenge and cause disproportionate destruction and deaths.
Israel would pound Gaza into Stone Age like it did in Beirut in 82 and in Lebanon so many times, and in Gaza so many times. But the Palestinian struggle will not perish because it is a natural struggle of its people for their natural rights.
I have kept saying we have to talk to fellow Americans and remind them that the violent struggle by the Native Americans when their lands were being stolen, and they were being annihilated , was initially demonized but now we all accept that it was a natural struggle by the Native Americans when they resisted with violence. The settlers had no moral or legal right to occupy the land and commit massacre‘s, but the Native Americans had morality and international law on their side.
Before it was Fatah, PPLF and others in PLO , and now it is HAMAS. And if HAMAS is crushed some other group will rise up.
It is not 1500 or even 1800 that Israel can commit a genocide and not pay a price.
The Zionist founders of Israel planned to use European colonialism and imperialism for the creation of Israel. Unfortunately for them the era of imperialism and colonialism ended right when they created Israel. They were planning to have a western colony in the Middle East under the protection of the colonial powers of the time. Israel cannot exist without the protection of the US, and when public opinion will force the US government to change its Middle East policy, Israel will have to settle with Palestinians. In its colonial arrogance , it had committed suicide by annexing so much Palestinian land and settling so many terrorist settlers in the West Bank that the 2 state solution is not possible. If Israel tries to remove the terrorist settlers, that will be a bloody affair too.
But on the other hand, if Israel tries to enforce a Single state solution, then within a few decades, the Jews will be a minority in their single state. Israel cannot win in the long run.
Therefore it started to implement the plan of “greater Israel”, with the help of the neocons in the US initially, and then the evangelists in the US-it was planning to expel all the Palestinians from the West Bank into Jordan. This plan was always discussed in hushed tones, but the new fascist parties that have come to power in Israel, in their arrogance failed to keep it under wraps.
Netanyahu thought that with the help of the corrupt UAE rulers and later with the help of the Saudi rulers, it will bury the Palestine problem. For a few months, it seemed to be succeeding. The Abraham accord was the first major step towards its goal. The peace deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia was to be the final nail in the coffin of Palestine.
Therefore the military actions of Hamas of October 7 were not only tactical genius but strategic genius too. The Israeli-Saudi peace deal is dead- at least for several years. The UAE tyrants are under tremendous pressure. The world has started to talk about Palestine once more.
The American Muslims must play their most important part in getting the American public opinion so that American government is forced to change its foreign policy. If there is a huge support for justice for Palestinians, then the US politicians will not easily be able to sell their souls to the Israelis. The Western Muslim should rally in huge numbers but more importantly form alliances with the local churches, even moderate synagogues and Human Rights Organizations. They should not raise any emotional slogans that can be distorted by the Israeli propagandists working in the western media. We must insist that occupation must end and we must expose Israeli propaganda going on from the 1930s demonizing the Arabs.
Our youth must get into activism
instead of tens of thousands studying fiqh. They must not follow those scholars and imams who do not know how politics work in the US but follow the strategic thinkers in our community.
The tide is turning. It has been turning for some time. I wrote an article in April 2001 after attending a huge pro-Palestine rally titled , TODAY I WAS A PALESTINIAN. COUNTRRPUNCH.org published it and it can be searched in their archives. Yes the tide is turning, though it is turning a little slower but now it will pick up momentum.
Anyway, Scott Ritter has brilliantly said all these things. The only place he makes mistakes is by saying that Hamas was used by Israel. Hamas had lost leaders, commanders, and its founder Shaykh Yasin- all killed by Israel. Of course, Israel always tries to play one Palestinian faction against another . Many Western experts don’t know that not only HAMAS was formed by the Muslim Brotherhood/ Ikhwan but the Muslim brotherhood was the oldest resistance movement against Israel. It’s volunteer forces had defeated the Jewish militia in many battles in 1948 and pushed the Zionists all the way to Tel Aviv. But then the Arab govts sent in their armies and forced the Muslim Brotherhood to leave. The Jewish militias then defeated the Arab armies led by incompetent generals serving corrupt dictators
Even Nasser and Arafat were members of Ikhwan but corruption and lust for power made them part ways.
So HAMAS is not the first avatar of Muslim brotherhood in its fight against Israel. It was fighting this fight from the day one – long before the PLO was formed.
My last advice is to reach out to the American Jewish community with confidence and tell them that listen with the rule of white supremacy you will be marked for annihilation in the US even before we will be. Therefore, it makes sense for all the minorities to come together but the fascist Israeli policy is not allowing this to happen.
You should abandon the fascist parties and policies of Israel for the sake of your survival in the US. You must let the world treat these parties the way it treated ISIS which was similar in its religious extremism and supremacism. If you don’t do this, not only will Israel be ultimately defeated, but your security will be crushed at the hands of the rising neo-Nazis and white supremacism in the US and Europe.
If Muslim youth wish to learn history and strategic planning , MuslimPeaceCoalition.org and ASPAIRE.org can help.
Thank you for your time and May Allah SWT help us free Palestine.